Harry ingram



H. INGRAM. HAT PASTENER. No. 595,480.' Patented Dec. 14,1897.

:fi INVENTOR g E HARRY INGRAM //II1,

ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

IIARRY INGRAM, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES P. FAY AND THADDEUS FIRTH, JR., OF SAME PLACE.

HAT- FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,480, dated December 14, 1897. Application filed September 4, 1897. Serial N 0. 650,585. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY INGRAM, a resident of Brooklyn, Kings county, State of New York, have invented an Improved Hat-Fastener, of which the following isaspecification.

My invention relates to devices for securing a hat or bonnet on the head of a wearer, and has for its object to produce an efticiently-operating device of the character described- My invention will be understood by referring .to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure-l is a side elevation of ahatfastener embodying my invention and showing also in dotted lines a hat or bonnet to which it is secured. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one section of the hat-fastener. Fig. 3 is an underneath plan view of the hat-fastener, showing the same as collapsed. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the section shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is adetail underneath view of a portion of the fastener, and Fig. 6 is a section on line 6 6 of Fig. 5.

The device illustrated consists of a pair of sections a b, which are slidably connected to each other, as by means of loops 0 (1, so that the two sections may be slid on each other to collapse the fastener. Each section is provided with means, such as the perforated plates e, for securing the same to. a hat or bonnet. Each section is bent or offset at the point f, at which place the sections are apertured for the passage of the upper member 9 of a compound hair-pin, whose lower member it passes through strapsor stirrups j near the base of each section. Each offset or bent portion f is covered by a plate 1', which plate is suitably secured to the said section and provides a space 70, in which the point of the upper member g of the hair-pin may be sheathed, the lower member of the hair-pin being sheathed by the stirrups j, as will clearly appear from an inspection of Fig. 2. The apertures in the offset f and the covering-plate i are so located with respect to each other as to spread apart the ends. of the hair-pin section, the stirrups j being likewise so located as to spread apart the ends of the hair-pin sections passing I through them. The hair-pin sections may be of any suitable or desired shape. The preferable shape is that shown in the drawings, wherein the lower section h comprises a'looped wire of the general shape of a hair-pin and provided with bends or loops h, which serve as bearings for the upper member of the hairpin. This upper number of the hair-pin consists of a wire bent into the general shape of a hair-pin, except that the wires are crossed at the point g, so as to provide stops or abutments on the hair-pin section 9 to limit the movement of the compound hair-pin, which is effected by the bent portions or abutments coming against the sides of the apertures in the sliding section of the hat-fastener, as will be well understood. The two members of the compound hair-pin are hinged together at their junction and swing independently of each other, the lower section swinging upon the line was, (exhibited in Fig. 4,) so that the hair-pins will enter the hairat dilferent degrees of inclination and firmly secure the hat to the head.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a hat-fastener, the combination of a plurality of sections each provided with means for securing it to a hat and slidably connected to each other, and a compound hair-pin sliding in each section and comprising a plurality of members joined so as to move in unison.

2. In a hat-fastener, the combination of a plurality of independent sections each provided with means for securing it to a hat and slidably connected together, and one or more compound hair-pins sliding in the sections and consisting of a plurality of members secured to each other by a pivotal connection whereby the said hair-pin sections will be moved together.

3. In a hat-fastener, the combination of a plurality of sections each provided with means for securingit to a hat and slidably connected together, a compound hair-pin sliding in each section and comprising a plurality of members or hair-pins placed one above the other extending in the same general direcsliding in each section and diverging from a tion and moving in unison. common center or axis.

4. In a hat-fastener the combination of a p r T plurality of sections each providedwith means HARRX IL GRAN 5 for securing it to a hat and siidably connect- Vitnesses:

ed to each other and provided with compound GEO. E. MORSE,

hair-pins comprising a plurality of hair-pins CHARLES E. SMITH. 

